When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
- Isaac Asimov
Or more succinctly; don’t conflate your ignorance with someone else’s knowledge.
Lemmy’s mum has got it going on, she’s all I want and I’ve waited for so long
The lesson to be learned here is that shitposting doesn’t just happen online.
This person is almost certainly on a wind up.
It’s from Viz; their letters section is basically The Onion
Poe’s law.
This was a while ago. Now they are not ashamed anymore, to weaponize their ignorance.
Obviously… since it’s AC power it doesn’t matter what direction the powers going.
Some people just don’t know how stupid they sound…
That’s not how that works, moron. Wind turbines only spin one way (see image above), so they clearly generate DC. Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Nice way to display your own stupidity. Everyone knows hamsters have fallen out of fashion for that like a hundred years ago. Gerbils is where it’s at!
Mongrel.
Way to tell us how dated you are
It’s common knowledge that stink energy from ferrets is the future
Pft! You kids and your new-fangled mumbo jumbo. GET OFF MY LAWN!
You should sell your idea to Adrian Newth
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Plus the static electricity in there stays in the same place either way
I don’t get how spinning a fan to make wind helps with electricity. They’re just big versions of the fan in my lounge room and that requires power to work. It’s all a Bill Gates scheme for more money.
All these hurricanes they say as related to global warming coming at the same time they install all the giant fans? I might not have gone to school but I can see what’s going on!
They’re all 5G antennas / amplifiers and the faster they spin the more 5G mind control waves they put out
If it’s just AC power what am I gonna do with all my other gadgets? Can I make the AC blow into my fridge and keep my food cold?
you’ll have to take into account that this comes from the UK, where “The people in this country have had enough of experts”
Thats some next level stupid
it’s the britain that made brexit happen, of course it’s next level stupid.
spoilers : it’s been getting worse since, I escaped in 2018
😬😬 sorry my dude, hope your future is better wherever you ended up.
No chance this was satire from a hilarious person?
The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It’s from the comic Viz, and the “Letterbocks” section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.
Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you’ve met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.
They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic
I’m invoking Poe’s Law. I’ve met people, family friends, who would flip between Climate Change not being real to Wind Turbines causing Climate Change. The posted image is absolutely possible to have come from a true believer.
Almost certainly, the British do sarcasm in a way that the colonials just don’t get.
Lemmies are often too autistic to realize this.
I can’t believe people are taking this seriously even after it’s been pointed out it’s blatant satire
Are you sure they did not just want to make the reader say “cocks” in their brain?
Yeah, British humour is not something an American can understand. If there’s no “laugh here” sign, then they’ll never understand that it’s a joke.
That’s literally just humans being human
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Poe’s Law is smarter than you.
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Dude there’s people who think the death is flat, this isn’t that crazy.
This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.
I mean if the plant is under the solar panel they sure will block the sun.
Which is a great thing in places where the sun would otherwise scorch the earth not letting anything grow.
There are combined projects of “solar panels + grass + sheep”. The grass helps retain water, lowering the temperature under the panel, which increases panel efficiency, and the sheep keep the grass from growing too tall, while feeding themselves.
It also seems like planting this way saves water, since less evaporates. And the farmers have an additional source of income so they are less dependent on the market. There is a good article at the BBC about a farmer being able to grow older, nicer but less desired lemons because of agri pv
Hilariously you have to be careful what animals you mix with agrivoltaics. Goats chew the cabling and try to climb onto the solar panels and cattle run up against the structures holding the panels to scratch itches
Yeah… goats will eat anything… and I mean ANYTHING.
Kinda like the chicken/turkey + some sort of profitable tree. I don’t really remember actually but the birds keep things weeded, fertilized, and debugged in a non computery sense.
It was a talking point used to prevent solar panels being installed somewhere by making people think farms not even on the same property would be ruined IIRC
Yea of course you could put a panel in many areas other than a farm. I’m guessing though they arent thinking in those terms. Yikes.
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People never cease to amaze me.
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Shit man I am a top ten expert in an extremely niche area with my work cited thousands of times and I still feel like I don’t know shit and will be in a state of constantly falling behind until I die.
That’s because there are 9 smarter people than you and new comers are breathing on your neck.
Dad?
Come on you must know your niche thing. I have confidence issues as well but stuff I have done who knows how many hundreds of times I know how to do.
I try to divide up the unknowns in any project. Knowing the exact point where my knowledge ends and begins again. If I know what I don’t know I can still have confidence in that much.
Imposter syndrome can affect anyone, no matter how experienced or knowledgeable they are.
Those reminders are pretty poignant when they hit though.
Like me having to delete this to reply to the correct comment. Oof!
Feels like it should be true… aside from the fact that subsequent studies suggest it is due to poor statistical analysis.
E.g.,
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840180
If you think this person is serious, I have some bad news for you.
Maybe that’s the point? It looks like a lot of people are taking it seriously.
Nah, Mr Smug up there thinks they’re the smart one.
I’m on my phone and can’t zoom in, but I don’t think that quite passes the vertical line test.
What is that club for?
By that logic, if he’s butchering meat and cutting from a different direction, does it put the meat back on?
Sort of. You also have to hold the knife upside-down.
A good butcher would never cut from the wrong direction, bro. Against the grain.
Well yeah. If you cut the other way, it puts the meat back on.
Lotta smug people in here having a laugh at the obvious satire, but from a technical standpoint this can be a real problem.
Happened to me this AM – had to eat cold bread after it untoasted itself, then get back in bed before my alarm clock unrung. I had stuff to do today
I’m pretty sure that’s against the law and you could be arrested.
That’s against the law and I’m pretty sure you could be arrested (you mean?)
You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.
The last decade has broken anyone’s ability to separate sarcasm from reality.
A former high school science teacher in NC argued at a public hearing for a solar project that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun and then all of their crops would die.
Science.
Teacher.The fall of the Roman empire will be considered graceful compared to the impending collapse from the weight of our own collective stupidity.
COVID pandemic shattered my belief that we are an intelligent species and that we have made any progress in last 70 or so years. Now I firmly believe that the next natural disaster - be it pandemic or famine or any global crisis - will be our last one.
At this point that might be for the best.
There are constant natural disasters, pandemics, famines, wars, climate going berserk… and if you look at the world population counter, it’s still going up.
With 8 billion people out there, an average lifespan of 80 would make it “normal” for 100 million to die each year. The average lifespan is barely over 72, though, that’s got room for a lot of disasters in there.Any global disaster that doesn’t kill at least 10% of the population, or over 800 million, is barely going to register on a “species” scale.
Brace yourself for a disaster a day for the foreseeable future. This is the new normal.
well, if you place the solar panels together, with no gaps, on top of the crops…
Fun fact: https://lemmy.world/comment/5051720
Some places, a little shadow could be good for crops.
Pretty sure it’s Viz.
It’s 100% Letterbocks in Viz.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure, but that makes sense.
Definitely Viz dry humour vibes.
Reminds me of KenM
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His great great great grandad thought the same about water wheels. What if the river started flowing the other way? Did anyone think of that???
You’re one step away from reinventing hydro storage
Potential energy batteries are so fucking cool.
fwiw, chemical energy batteries (aka typical batteries) are also potential energy batteries.
I don’t know a simple or correct label that differentiates batteries whose potential energy is gravity-dependent from batteries whose potential energy is chemical-reaction-dependent, but the concept of gravity-based energy storage absolutely is cool as heck.
Yes, they are cool and we have lots of them. There was plenty of oil from the USSR but some rather forward-thinking measures were made during the Cold War to ensure our energy self-reliance in case of a global conflict. Odd that Poland doesn’t even though they have similar amounts of coal.
Yeah it’s weird, they are called gravity batteries but there’s options for other versions coming down the pipeline.
Yes, our country built them wherever we could. The one I visited uses a lake in what is now a first-class national park zone. Whoops, they are now only allowed to create a 4 cm peak-to-peak fluctuation of the water level.
When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.
This is from Viz lol
First TopTip I’ve seen on Lemmy!
This man is an intellectual screw Einstein and bloody opiumhimer get this man on the world stage /s
Opiumheimer and Ensign
Opiumhimer 😂
opiumhammer
This man has a point. It would be much more effective if the wind is always blowing into the turbines. That sounds impossible, but you could simply place the turbine on a car. Whenever driving, there is lots of wind, and it always comes from the front of the car (unless you put the car in reverse, but that is not a state that the car is in for a long time).
/s (although I have had to genuinly explain to people why this does not charge the battery of an electric vehicle).
This is how we know the earth is flat. If it’s round, the earth would spin and the turbines would catch the wind and spin. I’ve tested this extensively by holding pinwheels while spinning in a roller chair until I blow chunks. Since the turbines stop sometimes, it’s clearly a spirit on the edge of the map, blowing until he takes another breath.
I’m telling you, everything about my theory blows.
Doing the real science here people 😂 💀
I saw a “job” posting for an engineer to develop that technology for someone. They were quite clear that they needed an out of the box thinker type, which made me wonder how many times this was explained to them.
I think about that posting sometimes and worry that he will just try it and the turbine will just fly off on the highway into the car behind his.
There was a Veritasium video like 2 years ago about wind powered vehicles. I guess it’s possible they saw a video like it. Physics can be very unintuitive sometimes, but, vehicles like sail boats do make sense.
It wasnt a land sail craft it was a fan that powered a car thus giving infinite energy. Also he was offering to pay in future stock.
You could probably apply the land sail craft trick to a car with a fan. The fan might need a special design, but it could potentially work the same way.
Go ahead but please please don’t go on a public road. There is enough death in the world, we don’t have to add to it when a blade flings off your turbine and takes out an innocent.
Ironically, that’s nonsense. Experimental cars on public roads barely cause any deadly accidents (under 1%), unlike distracted road-certified human drivers (over 80%); there is still twice as many births than deaths per year, predictions don’t expect there to be “enough” deaths for a stable population before 2085; and wind turbine blades already can change pitch without flying apart anyway. 🤷
I’m sorry, are you saying experimental cars cause almost 1% of road deaths, despite making up a tiny fraction of 1% of cars on the road? or is everything you just said made up and I majorly whooshed?
The trick is to give and take exactly 50% of the wind energy. That way, you can set up an entropy rig and capture that energy.
And you must remember not to take the best wind, you need to leave the best wind alone so it can make the next generation stronger.
When the wind blows the other way, you are supposed to plug all your appliances in backwards to trick the power grid into going the right direction again. Duh.
I’m only an actress and even I managed to figure it out, who needs butchers for wind turbines anyways.
Genius
The people who use the word boffin are invariably thick cunts.
